This free-wheeling book by a family court judge is filled with
anecdotal horror stories about how courts are stupid and willing
victims. After 24 years on the bench, the author decries the poor foster
home system, which she calls the "fraudulent foster care
plague" (p. 115) and provides numerous examples of damage caused to
families by the courts. She pleads for more parental involvement and
responsibility and proposes raising the Federal tax allowance to $10,000
per child.

Readers will be interested in the author's description of the
erroneous conclusion that a positive laboratory test for chlamydia means
sexual abuse and her observation that hospital and laboratory tests
cannot be trusted. She concludes that "Our great sex abuse scare
was driven by dollars and cents" (p.168) and asks, "Where
could [fathers] go to get back their dignity and self-respect?" (p.
169).

This is a "loose cannon" style of book, sometimes humorous
and outrageous. It is devoid of real names of agencies or persons and
there are no footnotes nor an index. Many of her points have been known
for years; let's hope that her next book will deal with the
implementation of her ideas.